Modern Meat

Short description: Book by Orville Schell

Modern Meat

Author| Orville Schell
Country| United States
Subject| intensive animal farming and antibiotic use in livestock
Publisher| Random House

Publication date

| 1984
Pages| 337
ISBN| ISBN:978-0394518909

Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm is a 1984 book by Orville Schell on intensive animal farming and antibiotic use in livestock.

## Reviews

One reviewer said that the book is a "startling introduction to today's mass-producing factory farms" but that it had the flaw of the author's "unrestrained personal bias and overdramatization of issues".[1]

Another reviewer said that the book was controversial and "warns of subtle—but potentially dangerous—long-range effects of 'pharmaceutical farming.'"[2]

A reviewer summarized the book's coverage as descriptions of "the indiscriminate use of ""subtherapeutic"" antibiotics in animal feeds (probably contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in both human and animal hosts); the use of diethylstilbestrol and other hormones; and (more briefly) the USDA meat-inspection programs--plus the industry's search for what could be described as nonfood feeds to simplify the stoking of four-footed machines."[3]

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association called the book "one-sided" and "seriously flawed".[2] Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called the book "precise and gripping".[2]

## References

1. ↑ Marquand, Cynthia B. (22 October 1984). "'Modern Meat' raises tough questions for consumers to chew on; Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm, by Orville Schell.". The Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1022/102209.html. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Faber, Nancy (September 24, 1984). "Orville Schell Beefs About Cattle and Chemicals in a Controversial Book, Modern Meat". People 22 (13). http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20088734,00.html. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
3. ↑ staff (1 April 1984). "MODERN MEAT: Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm by Orville Schell". Kirkus Reviews. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/orville-schell-5/modern-meat-antibiotics-hormones-and-the-pharma/. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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